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Show LEASING PUH IS FILLING USURIES Beck Tunnel and Colorado Profiting, While Lessees Themselves Do Well. Royalty on oro shipped by tho leasers is gradually building up the Colorado mine's reserve fund, and whilo tho figures aro not availablo at this timo, it is gonerally understood that tho mino carloads of sllvor-lead oro sent to the Bmoltor during tho month of March brought the company a nico sum of monoy, sayB tho Euroka Reporter. Somo new oro was dovelopod during the month, about tho host striko being made in tho block of ground upon which tho McEwan brothors are at work. This oro goes well in lead and silvor and is in a section of tho jprop-ertj' jprop-ertj' in which thoro is a chanco tor it to mako into a very good Btope of oro. Superintendent Perry Fuller statOB that tho leasing sj'slom is also bringing bring-ing somo monoy into tho Bock Tunnol treasury, and whilo thoro havo boon no sonsational developments during the past few wcoks, most of tho Toascrs aro getting along fairl' well. Tintic Standard Looking Well. There is a better showing in tho main oast drift at the Tintic Standard Stand-ard proporty thnn there has boon nt any timo in tho pnst two or throo months, according to John "Wctttordahl. who is looking aftor tho proporty, and tho drift seems to bo nearing tho main north and south break for which the managomont 'Tias boon searching. Mr. Wosterdahl says that bunches of lead aro coming in from timo to timo and thnt the entire face of tho drift is in tho vein matter and oro-bearing rock. Tho officials of tho Tintic Standard havo for sovoral months maintained that their big oro body will bo found nt tho intersection of tho two breaks, and olkors who havo visited tho proporty prop-orty and studied tho formation closely seem to share this belief. Tho oast drift has alreadv boon driven a distanco of about 175 feot. South Tintic Active. Thore is considerable activity at somo of tho oldor properties in the south ond of tho district, but in most cases tho work is being dono by leasers. There la a possibility of somo very heavy shipments of low-grado oro from that locality, as somo or tho old dumps undoubtedly contain large quantities quan-tities of oro that can bo handled under favorable conditions. At tho Minnio Moore property, whero Peterson & Moon of Silvor uity havo a leaso, some very good ore is now being be-ing mined. Tho loasors will soon bo ready to mako a shipment, and it is stated that their" oro runs well in silver, sil-ver, lead and coppor. Two car3 of leaso oro woro billed out at Silvor City last weok, ono coming com-ing from tho leaso of W. II. Greon on tho Sunbeam proporty and tho othor oth-or being mined by George Paxman and sons, who nro oporatinc at tho Showers and .Too Bowers properties. Opohongo Ore Strike Extending. Superintendent Samuel Cox states that tho now body of gold oro recently oncountorod in tho Opohongo mino is holding out very well and that tho sec ond shipmont will probably bo ready within tho noxt week or two. This now striko was mado in a block of ground that tho company had leased to Stoel & Johnson. Tho first nhn. ment sent out by tho leasers brought a littlo hotter than $30 per ton, carrying car-rying over an ounco in gold and about 8 por cent copper. Thoir noxt shipmont ship-mont should go oven better. In ordor that tho oro can bo handled han-dled to better advantago Superintendent Superintend-ent Samuel Cox mado a connection be-twoon be-twoon tho now oro body and the 700 lovol, and just as soon as tho ground can bo timbered tho mining coats will bo greatly reduced. A report from the mino today indicates that tho oro is making both abovo and bolow tho point whoro it was first located, and that it will be one of tho host stopes that has been rfound in tho Opohongo during tho past year. Tho conditions remain pretty much tho eaino in tho uppor portion of tho Opohongo, where Superintendent Cox has been at work for the past fow months. I)or tho past week or ten days tho drift, driven in from the main tunnel lovol, has boon prospecting tho fissure. Somo values havo been encountered, en-countered, but tho shipping grade of oro is yet to bo found. |